How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

An investigation into Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group behind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, and why Pakistani authorities has not arrested their leaders.

The profile that led to the Massey Energy CEO’s resignation.

On the gap between how the world sees Goldman Sachs and how Goldman Sachs sees itself.

On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

How a Russian-born Canadian 23-year-old invented Ethereum, the first cryptocurrency to seriously challenge Bitcoin.

How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.

An interview with the actor.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.